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Amelia Moonlight

[member="Darth Valdra"]
Thanks, I assumed it was mostly like that.

I have a weakness for making powerful characters, I admit. I try to keep it mostly with regard to NPCs though, I've learned through trial and error to scale down when writing with another player. But you can be the judge of that after a couple of posts yourself :)
 
[member="Amelia Moonlight"]

Making a powerful character is not a bad thing, this is Star Wars after all. It is more of the journey to the power I refer to. Take the lightsaber for example. So many acolytes and padawans start out wielding the lightsaber like naturals when in reality it is an extremely difficult weapon to handle at first. Minor things like that. No one will be mad if you are a natural, just the more work your character puts into something, the more respect from writers they garner.
 
Darth Valdra said:
[member="Amelia Moonlight"]

something about her just makes me want to corrupt her and lead her to the dark side.
[member="Amelia Moonlight"] is an Echani "Frustrated Virgin". She practically has one foot in the dark side cookie jar already. And that is not even covering the fact her name is Lilith. :p
 
No comment on those last two comments :p

As for the lightsaber, I envisioned her as focussing on lightsaber combat (and other physical aspects of the training). Deflecting blaster fire is only possible with battle precognition, and that's something she really is a natural at; is it then surprising that she's also good at a skill that's based on her talent? Not to mention it's one of the most basic skills Jedi trainees learn - remember that Youngling that could hold off several stormtroopers when senator Organa arrived at the temple during Order 66? Sure, he died in the end, as he was charging out on the open with no cover and facing several 1st gen clone troopers: but not before taking some of them down first.

I appreciate the concern and the critique (don't mistake my tone, I really do :)), but perhaps it is worth pointing out that what I had written so far does not seem unreasonable, at least not to me, regarding the context. I didn't say that every shot was reflected back on the attacker; I said she deflected the first round of those that were actually dangerous of hitting her, and that one was lucky enough to be redirected onto the attacker. After that I only wrote that she decided to attempt this with every shot if possible; some succeeded, but more failed. Also note that in the given situation, Amelia had cover on both left and right, so she didn't need block every shot (though I guess I could have stated that more explicitly). Does all this really seem so unrealistic, under such circumstances?

I have some idea of what qualifies as powergaming, and I've read the guides on the tutorial section, but it seems to me people still have vastly diverse opinions on what exactly qualifies as powergaming. XD
 
[member="Amelia Moonlight"]

NPC wise you can pretty much go nuts. The difference in opinions comes with Skirmish and Invasions fighting other writer's characters. It can be a grey area.

I wouldn't worry about it too much though. ;)
 

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